Editorial

The Mayor of Port of Spain’s resignation, following outrage at his remarks on the killing of a Japanese tourist, shows the speed at which social media can transform information into political pressure.

Leftist populism continues to lose ground in Latin America. Last Sunday, voters in Bolivia rejected President Evo Morales’ attempt at constitutional reform to allow him to run for a third consecutive presidential term in 2019.

The fourth phase of a brick (concrete) building being constructed inside the compound of the city prison at Lot 12 Camp Street, is slated for completion at the end of July, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan informed the National Assembly last week during consideration of the budget estimates.

The last general elections for the Jamaica House of Representatives having been held in October 2011, the country goes to the polls tomorrow, with all 63 seats being contested by the two main political parties, the ruling Peoples National Party led by Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller and the Jamaica Labour Party led by former Prime Minister, Andrew Holness.

The contract employee debate that surfaced some weeks ago and which is still ensuing in some quarters has raised some interesting questions about the prospects for a professional public service in the future.

Wednesday’s signing of a US$3m grant deal between Guyana and the World Bank is a significant development on two counts.

What might be considered a minor contretemps in the National Assembly on Wednesday could have more serious implications.

In Ciudad Juarez earlier this week, Pope Francis spoke of the “humanitarian crisis” of mass migration and human trafficking.

It is good that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued an official statement on the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Agreement on February 17.

Figures released by the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) last week reveal that a staggering 75% of the girls who were sent to the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) last year were sent there for wandering.

Those following the contest for the American presidency, as it proceeds with its first stage of party choices of candidates, can recognize that the process is less institutionalized and, we might say, less constricted than that with which we and other Caricom countries are familiar.

A brief media release issued by the Office of the Presidency last Wednesday alluded to a meeting on the same day between President David Granger and University of Guyana Chancellor Professor Nigel Harris.

As the 50th independence celebration will undoubtedly lead to sobering and introspective reflections on how poorly placed the country is after five decades as a free nation we mustn’t unnecessarily add to this burden by unthinking behaviour.

It seems that City Hall is the source of some of the more outlandish proposals jostling for attention on the airwaves these days.

One billion light years ago two black holes collided. One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein predicted that this impact would send gravitational ripples through the universe.

February 7 marked the 54th anniversary of the imposition of the US trade embargo against Cuba.

Georgetown’s homeless, like their counterparts in every other city in the world, are its most highly visible yet unseen residents.

It is almost natural that, for reasons of our historical and contemporary connections, Guyana and the other Caricom countries would have been closely following the latest stages, and now the recent agreement, on negotiations between the European Union authorities and Britain.

Mostly for the wrong reasons, the majority-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) has been in the news fairly frequently in recent weeks.

Awaited for so long, the March 18 Local Government Elections (LGE) presents an epochal opportunity for citizens to take back control of the running of their communities and to have an ongoing role in developments.